From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com, roman.puttkammer@multex.com
Subject: Re: bash wildcard expansion
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 05:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001222135338.13397.qmail@web111.yahoomail.com> (raw)
--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, on reflection, the "\"*\"" is the problem. This is not
> the same as "*", of course. And, that's what you want.
>
> I can't think of any way to tell cygwin to just quote an argument
> with ", offhand. I can't even think of a good way to fix this, if
> it is a bug.
>
And AFAICR it has always been a problem and no one has yet to find "a good way
to fix this."
Cheers,
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-22 5:53 Earnie Boyd [this message]
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2000-12-21 18:54 Puttkammer, Roman
2000-12-21 19:07 ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-21 19:37 ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-21 18:37 Puttkammer, Roman
2000-12-21 19:04 ` Chris Abbey
2000-12-21 19:12 ` friedman_hill ernest j
2000-12-21 18:06 Dunn-Roberts, Richard
2000-12-21 17:40 Puttkammer, Roman
2000-12-21 18:31 ` Christopher Faylor
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